Trick-or-treating is so much fun, but also has the potential to be dangerous, considering that it’s dark out, and kids wear costumes that may be hard to maneuver in or have a mask that restricts their vision. To help keep your little ones safe, AAA recommends:...
Kudos to whoever is cleaning/repainting the mural under the 63rd St. bridge just off Aurora. Boxcar wrote in Comments on a previous post that he saw a group of girls with a red wagon full of painting supplies working on the mural two days ago. Here’s what one...
Here are two of the coolest Halloween things we’ve seen around the neighborhood. This witch-into-the-telephone-pole is an old standby at 72nd and 2nd in Phinney: And this ghostlike figure above the trellis at 87th and 1st in Greenwood creeped me out even in the...
We get this question all the time and there doesn’t seem to be an absolute answer. The City’s Department of Neighborhoods defines the boundaries of Phinney Ridge as Aurora to 8th N.W. and 46th Street to North 75th St. But, Wikipedia says it runs from...
A full service video production and new media company, being MEdia, has just moved into The Greenwood Collective at 8537 Greenwood Ave N. According to being MEdia’s site, they do documentary production, online video, non-profit and corporate videography,...
Just in time for Halloween, neighborhood author Michael Attebery has released his book, “On/Off: A Jekyll & Hyde Story” in hard copy form and on Amazon’s increasingly popular Kindle. As we mentioned when we teased the book in a post about his...
Permanent painted “sharrow” markers have appeared on Fremont Avenue from the south end of Woodland Park Zoo to N. 42nd Street. The sharrow symbol, a bicycle topped with two chevrons, is meant to signal motorists to share the road with cyclists. The markers...
The City of Seattle is asking residents to help keep storm drains clear of leaves and other debris to avoid flooding problems. Fall and winter weather often clogs drains quickly, leading to water backups on some roads. City crews recently inspected 78,000 storm drains...
Phinneychick is looking for someone who can install and finish fir flooring. If you know anyone good, post a reply on her forum post. Update: So far, four people have offered suggestions. Way to step up AyersBF, Grrrr-eenwood, etta and SycamorePete!
The free writing and tutoring center 826 Seattle (hiding behind the guise of the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. at 8414 Greenwood Ave.) has hired its first Youth Mentor, Thomas Faiz. Thomas is a senior at Ballard High School. He serves as a role model for...